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Japanese Room Service
Breakfast Anyone?
A telephonic exchange between a hotel guest and room-service, at a hotel in Japan, which was recorded and published in the Far East Economic Review.....
(Be warned, you're going to find yourself talking "funny" for a while after reading this)
Room Service: "Morny. Ruin sorbees"
Guest: "Sorry, I thought I dialled room-sevice"
Room Service: "Rye..Ruin sorbees..morny! Djewish to odor sunteen??"
Guest: "Uh..yes..I'd like some bacon and eggs"
Room Service: "Ow July den?"
Guest: "What??"
Room Service: "Ow July den?...pry,boy, pooch?"
Guest: "Oh, the eggs! How do I like them? Sorry,scrambled please."
Room Service: "Ow July dee bayhcem...crease?"
Guest: "Crisp will be fine"
Room Service: "Hokay. An San tos?"
Guest: "What?"
Room Service: "San tos. July San tos?"
Guest: "I don't think so"
Room Service: "No? Judo one toes??"
Guest: "I feel really bad about this, but I don't know what 'judo one toes' means."
Room Service: "Toes! toes!...why djew Don Juan toes? Ow bow singlish mopping we bother?"
Guest: "English muffin!! I've got it! You were saying 'Toast.'Fine. Yes, an English muffin will be fine."
Room Service: "We bother?"
Guest: "No..just put the bother on the side."
Room Service: "Wad?"
Guest: "I mean butter...just put it on the side."
Room Service: "Copy?"
Guest: "Sorry?"
Room Service: "Copy...tea...mill?"
Guest: "Yes. Coffee please, and that's all."
Room Service: "One Minnie. Ass ruin torino fee, strangle ache, crease baychem, tossy singlish mopping we bother honey sigh,
and copy....rye??"
Guest: "Whatever you say"
Room Service: "Tendjewberrymud"
Guest: "You're welcome"
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